Le Métro de Paris

1. Die Welt ist alles, was der Fall ist.
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7. Wovon man nicht sprechen kann, darüber muß man schweigen.

Logisch-Philosophische Abhandlung, Wilhelm Ostwald (ed.), Annalen der Naturphilosophie, 14 (1921)

-Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein.

Viridiana (1961, dir. Luis Buñuel)

L'être ou le néant, voilà le problème.

-Raymond Queneau.

Annie Hall (1977, dir Allen)

"What can I do to drive away
Remembrance from my eyes?"

Keats, 1819

Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975, dir Akerman)

Delphine Claire Beltiane Seyrig

née le 10 avril 1932 à Beyrouth (Liban) et morte le 15 octobre 1990 à Paris

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Ô mes amis, vous tous, je ne renie
aucun de vous ; ni même ce passant
qui n'était de l'inconcevable vie
qu'un doux regard ouvert et hésitant.

Combien de fois un être, malgré lui,
arrête de son oeil ou de son geste
l'imperceptible fuite d'autrui,
en lui rendant un instant manifeste.

Les inconnus. Ils ont leur large part
à notre sort que chaque jour complète.
Précise bien, ô inconnue discrète,
mon coeur distrait, en levant ton regard.

-Rainer Maria Rilke.
Vergers (1926)

John Milton

9 December 1608
Bread Street, Cheapside, London

8 November 1674
Bunhill, London

sometime scholar at Saint Paul's School (London) and at Christ's College, Cambridge

Judee Sill (1944-1979)

I'll chase 'em to the bottom
Till I've finally caught 'em
Dreams fall deep...

-Judee Sill
The Donor

The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling (1749)

Book XV.

In which the History Advances about Two Days.

Chapter i.

Too short to need a preface.

There are a set of religious, or rather moral writers, who teach that virtue is the certain road to happiness, and vice to misery, in this world. A very wholesome and comfortable doctrine, and to which we have but one objection, namely, that it is not true.

Kerouac and Ginsberg

"Yes, it's early, late, or a middle Friday evening in the universe."

-Jack Kerouac.

Pull My Daisy (1958)

The Minnesota State Fair

Among other things, the Minnesota State Fair has:

potatoes

goat milking opportunities

with real goats

hundreds of varieties of honey (in the honey and bee wing of the agriculture pavilion)

prize corn

and, a new single day attendance record: 234,384 (Saturday, September 4, 2010)

Adieu --- L'automne déjà!

"... while Rimbaud in Paris burnt out his brains in a thousand poems ..."
-Annie Dillard
Holy the Firm
Part One: Newborn and Salted